1. I am astonished and indignant that I have received not a word from you in response to my telephonogram about a joint conference with the II and II½ Internationals.259 One ought to respond to such matters, if only with two words, without delay.

2. Could you arrange for me to have someone who regularly reads European newspapers and the publications of the II and II½ Internationals compile for me the very briefest summary (no more than two pages for newspapers in each individual language) of the arguments they employ regarding our new economic policy. It would be sufficient for me to have such a summary separately from the German, French, and English newspapers, but only, I repeat, in the most concise telegraphic style—no more than two pages for each of these languages.

I request a reply.260

Lenin

Dictated by telephone

February 2, 1922

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in Lenin Miscellany XXXVI

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